PediaBench: A Comprehensive Chinese Pediatric Dataset for Benchmarking Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Zhang, Qian, Chen, Panfeng, Li, Jiali, Feng, Linkun, Liu, Shuyu, Zhao, Heng, Chen, Mei, Li, Hui, Wang, Yanhao
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author Zhang, Qian
Chen, Panfeng
Li, Jiali
Feng, Linkun
Liu, Shuyu
Zhao, Heng
Chen, Mei
Li, Hui
Wang, Yanhao
author_facet Zhang, Qian
Chen, Panfeng
Li, Jiali
Feng, Linkun
Liu, Shuyu
Zhao, Heng
Chen, Mei
Li, Hui
Wang, Yanhao
contents The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the medical domain has stressed a compelling need for standard datasets to evaluate their question-answering (QA) performance. Although there have been several benchmark datasets for medical QA, they either cover common knowledge across different departments or are specific to another department rather than pediatrics. Moreover, some of them are limited to objective questions and do not measure the generation capacity of LLMs. Therefore, they cannot comprehensively assess the QA ability of LLMs in pediatrics. To fill this gap, we construct PediaBench, the first Chinese pediatric dataset for LLM evaluation. Specifically, it contains 4,117 objective questions and 1,632 subjective questions spanning 12 pediatric disease groups. It adopts an integrated scoring criterion based on different difficulty levels to thoroughly assess the proficiency of an LLM in instruction following, knowledge understanding, clinical case analysis, etc. Finally, we validate the effectiveness of PediaBench with extensive experiments on 20 open-source and commercial LLMs. Through an in-depth analysis of experimental results, we offer insights into the ability of LLMs to answer pediatric questions in the Chinese context, highlighting their limitations for further improvements. Our code and data are published at https://github.com/ACMISLab/PediaBench.
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spellingShingle PediaBench: A Comprehensive Chinese Pediatric Dataset for Benchmarking Large Language Models
Zhang, Qian
Chen, Panfeng
Li, Jiali
Feng, Linkun
Liu, Shuyu
Zhao, Heng
Chen, Mei
Li, Hui
Wang, Yanhao
Computation and Language
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the medical domain has stressed a compelling need for standard datasets to evaluate their question-answering (QA) performance. Although there have been several benchmark datasets for medical QA, they either cover common knowledge across different departments or are specific to another department rather than pediatrics. Moreover, some of them are limited to objective questions and do not measure the generation capacity of LLMs. Therefore, they cannot comprehensively assess the QA ability of LLMs in pediatrics. To fill this gap, we construct PediaBench, the first Chinese pediatric dataset for LLM evaluation. Specifically, it contains 4,117 objective questions and 1,632 subjective questions spanning 12 pediatric disease groups. It adopts an integrated scoring criterion based on different difficulty levels to thoroughly assess the proficiency of an LLM in instruction following, knowledge understanding, clinical case analysis, etc. Finally, we validate the effectiveness of PediaBench with extensive experiments on 20 open-source and commercial LLMs. Through an in-depth analysis of experimental results, we offer insights into the ability of LLMs to answer pediatric questions in the Chinese context, highlighting their limitations for further improvements. Our code and data are published at https://github.com/ACMISLab/PediaBench.
title PediaBench: A Comprehensive Chinese Pediatric Dataset for Benchmarking Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06287